no, like lana, she'd be better if she got in touch with her rock roots (do not mean loud/metal/screamo rock either, the last thing she needs to be doing is screeching)
Beyonce is not that far away from suffering from Lady Gaga esque overexposure herself if she keeps going at the pace she does. Eventually, being known for surprises wears out.
Half a decade later, the world has changed. These two women have changed. Beyoncé now has an astronomical lock on the world’s attention. We orbit her. All she did on Saturday was release a song and a video — “Formation" — and the planet seemed to stop. ... In evoking black power and invoking black beauty, as “Formation” does, Beyoncé has politicized her stardom, but she’s also defending territory (regional, racial, professional) from everyone else; opening up discourse, with one hand; slaying her peers with the other.
This iteration of Beyoncé’s fame is what Gaga seemed to be joking about at the start of her career — this traffic-stopping collision of egotism, bravado and pure power, of commanding attention and getting it. All of it. ... Beyoncé’s contribution to Coldplay’s halftime show came preordained as an upstaging. ...
Of course, in the event, she made you understand why she matters so peerlessly as an entertainer. No one has her charisma...
And yet, it was impossible not to notice where other people were in relation to Beyoncé. Janelle Monáe, for instance, appeared in a taped segment for Pepsi that introduced the show. Coldplay had become the ball upon which stood her exclamation point. And Gaga was long gone. Beyoncé was dressed in what’s basically one of Michael Jackson’s old military jackets. She moved like Tina Turner. She was trying to politic like Nina Simone. You’re encouraged to think that her equals aren’t with her in the present. They’re communing with her from the past.
